Accurate donor and recipient selection and a short time to transplant offer excellent outcomes in upfront hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from matched unrelated donors for pediatric severe aplastic anemia and refractory cytopenia of childhood. A study of the Spanish Pediatric Group for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy (GETH-TC)

Affiliations

• ¹ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Division. Hospital Universitari Vall d ́Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
• ² Vall d´Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain.
• ³ Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁴ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department. Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁵ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁶ Hematology and Hemotherapy Division. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain.
• ⁷ Valdecilla Health Research Institute (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain.
• ⁸ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department. Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
• ⁹ Pediatric Department. Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department. Hospital Universitario Niño Jesus, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹¹ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department. Hospital Clinic Universitario, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹² Biomedical Research Institute, Valencia, Spain.
• ¹³ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Division. Hospital Universitari Vall d ́Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. cristina.diazdeheredia@vallhebron.cat.
• ¹⁴ Vall d´Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain. cristina.diazdeheredia@vallhebron.cat.
• ¹⁵ Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. cristina.diazdeheredia@vallhebron.cat.